By Reza Jalili-Baleh, ICT Infrastructure and Operations Team Leader, Newington College In 2015, Myles Carrick, ICT Director of Newington College participated in the annual Newington College Tour Party to Tupou College in Toloa, Kingdom of Tonga, on the request...

In my last post I explored the challenge and needs around developing a ‘strategy’ for ICT. Across the summer I eagerly dived into drafting initiatives and structures. I looked at projects of all sizes, programs and priorities. What immediately became...

Back in 2011 we embarked on an ambitious vision for ICT at Newington. It was dramatic, but in many ways it was ‘easy’. Although it would herald a long, hard slog from a talented and committed team, the easy part was that we were working from a standing...

Ugh. I’ve asked my Year 10s to blog all year, publish on WordPress, and submit their posts as assignments in Canvas. So I’m only writing this cause the boys made a good point when they asked me to. I am just as horrified by the idea of anyone reading mine as...

Working in an ICT team is never easy. The environment is tough: constantly changing needs and context, new skills to acquire, different perspectives, life stages, priorities, and professional aspirations. The following outlines our shared understanding of what drives...

We started the adventure of student publishing a couple of weeks ago. The idea of having students publish blogs as a way to reflect on their work and evaluate their progress in classes has been niggling at me for quite some time now. My work with the Newington College...

Having already moved some of our early apps to AWS – our community website, Spaces, and our parent passwords system, MyLogin – we were keen to explore which other apps could be moved offsite. Motivations From the start we found it really valuable to be clear on our...

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ‘owns’ the global market for cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In my last post I described some of the steps we began with SaaS: Google Apps, Instructure Canvas, etc. In 2012-2013 we began the fun process...

The team at Newington is now three years into our cloud journey. We had a fairly simple start. As with most other stories of our e-learning journey, the story starts in late 2011. At that time the server infrastructure at the College was in a fairly sorry state. Some...

As part of the “STEM festival” at school this week our Year 7 classes all had a session in their maths classes where they created “Mathematiclips” (stay tuned with that concept!!) An example: Equations with Angus Webster Creating...